Kia B Music & Norwich Arts run After-School Drama Program for City youth

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Kia A. Baird hails from South Eastern Connecticut with strong ties to the south via Charlotte and Winston Salem, North Carolina. She is a graduate of Winston Salem State University where she studied the business of Music. Kia possesses a strong love for jazz and models her musical style after such jazz vocalists as Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Nancy Wilson. Kia’s performance resume lists classical training, including Soprano in the African American Opera Barefoot, and performing with the Eastern CT Symphony Chorus. Kia has performed at the Historic Harlem Cotton Club and in concert with Jazz greats Slide Hampton, Nicolas Payton and Saxophonist Antonio Hart. Kia is a featured soloist for RPM Voices of Rhode Island as well as performs in numerous bands local to the New England area. Kia recently finished performing and touring with stage band the Magic of Motown, portraying legends Diana Ross and Aretha Franklin. Kia also sings sacred music weekly as the director of worship at Ledyard Gales Ferry Baptist Church located in Gales Ferry, CT.

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